When you're taping for AUGUST and it's still May, there's a problem. When you write characters that fans aren't recognizing and those same fans HATE what this character has become-- there's a problem. My fear is that it may be too little too late for Days. I think that if you combine these two factors, you get a show that pretty much stinks and people aren't exactly happy to watch. I want to be hopeful for the new writers but at this point, I really do, I just don't think that anything they do will even help.